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BUFFALO BILL. head and buckskin-clad form of an Indian, | his exertions, boy though he was, he could | who, in peering over the bank to recon support the family, Mrs. sae! gave & noiter, had lost his balance, or the earth | reluctant consent for him toma e another | had given way, and sent him down into | trip to the Far West under 6B old and the stream. experienced waggon-master named Lew. He caught sight of Billy as he was Simpson, who had taken a great fancy to ‘ing dow 3 hful Indian fighter. - = sliding down, and gave a wild war-whoop, | the youth Se which was answered by a shot from the Bill was according y enlisted as an” boy’s rifle; for though taken wholly by | “ extra. hand,” which meant that he a8 surprise, he did not lose his presence of | to receive full pay and be on hand ready) mind. to take the place of any one of the” Hearing the war-whoop and the shot, train that was killed, wounded, or got” and at the same time missing Billy, the wick, | oo men came running back, and found him| The waggon train pulled out of Leaven-— dragging the red-skin along in the stream worth, all heavily. freighted, each one” after him. carrying about six thousand pounds” * he cried, exult- | weight, and each also drawn by four yo : = » a4 ‘ . J ‘ 6 Tt njun, boys : : 2KO = a = apps pee eee of oxen, under charge of a driver or 1.) “Tt aro fer a fact, an’ I'll show yer how whacker, - , - SS Se ter take his scalp,” replied the train- The train consisted of twenty-five wa om master, as he skilfully cut off the scalp- | gons, under Lew Simpson, then an assist — lock and handed it to Billy, adding - | ant waggon-master, next Billy, the “ extra,” “Thar, thet is yer first scalp, boy, an’ | a night herder, a cavallard: driver, wh¢ 30 'm willin’ ter swear it won’t be yer last, | duty was driving the loose and’ ame. for Billy, you is ther hoss boy 1 ever ee and the bull-whacker° for each) see.” eam. ie 4) SSS ae Billy thanked ey for the go All were armed: with yagers and alt’ 4 trophy, gave a slight shudder as he too revolvers, and each man had a horse along,” it, and said, sighiticantly— Billy’s being Sable Satan, still as good as: ‘7 ain't so tired as I was, and I guens | the day he captured him, and a piece of [’ll keep up with you all now; for if the | equine ‘property all envied the boy he bank hadn’t caved in, that Injun would | possession of; in fact, there were several) have hid me.” of the men who swore they would yet At daylight they came in sight of have the horse. _ | i Kearney, and after a volley or two at the “T guess not, pards; the boy caught Indians still dogging their steps, made for | that horse wild on the prairies, and the) the fort and reached it in safety. man that lays hands on™ in settles wi ih The commanding officer at once sent} me.” “Oa out a force in pursuit of the red-skins;} The speaker was J. BD. Hickok, or ‘Hitehis” but they neither found them or the cattle | cock, known to the world as “ Wild Bil they had driven off. and upon that trail he and William Fy After s short stay at Fort Kearney, Cody for the first time met. 9) Billy returned with a train to Leaven- Wild Bill-was assistant w , | Worth, where the papers dubbed him the | on that trip, and all knety him so wél Boy Indian-Killer,” and made a hero of | that the idea of possessing Sable Satan by him for his exploit on the South Platte | unfair means was ab once iven up, and” River. Billy felt secure in his treasure, for’eu — the horse was, as his equal for speed/and” CHAPTER VIE. As an “ extra hand,” Billy had nothing to do while the bull-whackers kept in good! WINNING A NAME, i health, and no Indians wers met with; st a’ 5® ” ‘became the hunter of the train, keepmg” HEN Billy returned home after his | 6 well supplied with fresh meate ar 1 wild first Indian-killing expedition, he | fowl, , PME it & carried with him the pay of a| It was upon one of these hun buil-whacker, and all of it he placed in| Billy won the name of Bu his mother’s hands, for the death of Mr. | though afterward it was sh Cody had left tho family in indigent cir- | dropping the y, after pr ving tiaele r “4 7 And un ee 4 +» ee a ; a ~ ; ri \ _- ge’ ~~ ee Te. Gg : - + = et.) waar OM y . wa int e meje...t : . v proving cumstances, champion buffalo killer on the Finding that sho could not keep Billy | Dismounting from Sable Satan to 0 at home when he had found out that by | up an antelope Weil al orere) Or